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Manchester & London Investment Trust (LSE:MNL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0.5 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Manchester & London Investment Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Manchester & London Investment Trust's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jan. 2024 was £0.3 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was £0.5 Mil.


Manchester & London Investment Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Manchester & London Investment Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Manchester & London Investment Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Manchester & London Investment Trust Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.41 0.56 0.73 0.60 0.50

Manchester & London Investment Trust Semi-Annual Data
Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.26 0.34 0.25 0.25 0.27

Competitive Comparison of Manchester & London Investment Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Manchester & London Investment Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Manchester & London Investment Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Manchester & London Investment Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Manchester & London Investment Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Manchester & London Investment Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.5 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Manchester & London Investment Trust  (LSE:MNL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Manchester & London Investment Trust (LSE:MNL) Business Description

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Address
12a Princes Gate Mews, London, GBR, SW7 2PS
Manchester & London Investment Trust PLC is an investment company. It invests in companies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market. The investment objective of the company is to achieve capital appreciation together with a reasonable level of income. It may invest in derivatives, money market instruments, currency instruments, contracts for differences (CFDs), futures, forwards, and options for the purposes of holding investments and hedging positions against movements in equity markets, currencies, and interest rates.

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